Roxann Prazniak

Of Camel Kings and Other Things (eBook, ePUB)

Rural Rebels Against Modernity in Late Imperial China

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the perspective of village activists across China, this book tells the stories of farmers and rural laborers who raised the banner of opposition to constitutional reform during the first decade of the twentieth century. The author brings to life the stories of the Camel King of Zunhua county, Qu Shiwen and the Four Mountains of Laiyang county, and many others who criticized government modernization efforts, known collectively as the New Policy. Using county archives--including oral histories--as well as memoirs, periodical literature, missionary records, and official documents both Chinese and foreign, Of Camel Kings and Other Things constructs, from fragmented sources, a coherent historical view vital to our understanding of China's twentieth-century crises and the dilemmas of modernity itself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461639633
• Artikelnr.: 39577070

Autorenporträt

Roxann Prazniak is assistant professor of history at the Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, and the author of Dialogues Across Civilizations: Sketches in World History from the Chinese and European Experiences.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Prologue
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Anti-New Policy Rural Activism in Historical Context: Taiping and
Boxer Preludes
Chapter 4 Laiyang, Shandong: Qu Shiwen and the Four Mountains
Chapter 5 Excerpt from Water Margin
Chapter 6 Zunhua, Zhili: Camel King Wang at the Foot of the Great Wall
Chapter 7 Excerpt from Three Kingdoms
Chapter 8 Weiyuan, Sichuan: Heaven-Protected Liu Xiangting Among the Red
Lanterns
Chapter 9 Excerpt from Journey to the West
Chapter 10 Lianzhou, Guangdong: The Greenwood, Tongmenghui Alliance
Chapter 11 Chuansha, Jiangsu: Ding Fei and Her Vegetarian Sisterhood in
Resistance to Reform
Chapter 12 Conclusion
Chapter 13 Epilogue
Chapter 14 Glossary